May 5, 2010 8:16 PM

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India may get access to Headley by month end

The US will inform India by next week about possible dates, for giving direct access to Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley. Sources in the Home Ministry, said most likely this month a team of Indian investigators will visit Chicago for direct access to Headley. Apart from National Investigating Agency, NIA and Mumbai Police officials, a team comprising a Magistrate, legal experts and Senior Home Ministry officials will go to the US to interrogate Headley. Union Home Secretary G K Pillai has on April 30 first indicated that Indian investigators would be given direct access to David Headley. He also described this as a significant achievement. A two-member team led by Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium had visited the US for five days to discuss modalities of gaining access to the terrorist. Headley has told his American interrogators that he had several times conducted recce for the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. An operative of Pakistan-based terror outfit<br/>Lashkar-e-Taiba, Headley was arrested in October last year, and entered into a plea bargain with the US government wherein he has offered to be available to foreign investigators through deposition, video conferencing or letters rogatory.<br/>

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